Taxes & Economy

Tax Cuts and the Economy

  • Nathan Benefield
  • October 3, 2006

Heritage Foundation Report titled (and summarized) Tax Rate Reductions Strengthen the Economy, But Excessive Government Spending Threatens Long-Run Performance.Some very nice charts and numbers are in there.

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Taxes & Economy

Democrats want you to pay more taxes

  • October 3, 2006

Tony Phyrillas highlights the government’s “take” of your money. His conclusion on what rolling back the Bush tax cuts would mean to Pennsylvanians is enlightening: • Pennsylvania’s married…

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Public Union Democracy

Teachers walk the picket line

  • October 3, 2006

The labor union in Littlestown are striking over health care. Currently, teachers pay only 2.6% of the premium for their health care benefits. The school board wants them…

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Public Union Democracy

Union Slams Proposed Teacher Strike Ban

  • October 3, 2006

With a teacher strike currently occuring in Adams County, the effort to ban teacher strikes in Pennsylvania is building steam. Despite the fact that 38 other states prohibit government…

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Regulation

A roll of the dice

  • October 3, 2006

Northeast PA Business Journal looks at the potential impact of slot machines in PA. “The only real economic impact is if you draw people from outside your region,” says…

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Government Accountability

Lame ducks ruffle feathers in 3 statehouses

  • Nathan Benefield
  • October 2, 2006

Stateline.org article on Lame Duck legislatures. Guess which state is the leader in post-election shenanigans.

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Education

Our Soviet education model

  • October 2, 2006

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review’s Bill Steigerwald interviews the Cato Institute’s Neal McCluskey on how a number of “conservatives” have taken a “180-degree wrong turn from conservatism’s once-solid principles of limited government,…

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Taxes & Economy

Income tax cuts benefit all payers

  • Nathan Benefield
  • October 2, 2006

USA Today article exposes the rhetoric of “tax cuts for the rich.” They note that middle income taxpayers saw a larger percent reduction in their tax burdern, and that…

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